Back in Time: Unshackling From Love

Chapter 17

As Mikayla laughed, tears streamed down her face.

Images from her previous life of being beaten, cursed at, and tortured at the mental hospital flashed before her eyes.

In the flashback, the hefty caretaker had gripped her by the hair, forcefully pulling her away and causing her only bowl of plain soup to spill.

They would even forcefully pinch her mouth when she refused to take her medication, shoving handfuls of pills down her throat.

Mikayla always thought it was the mental hospital deliberately tormenting her to please

Jerome.

Little did she know, the demonic woman from the previous life was Kylie’s relative.

So, all the misery she endured in the mental hospital was orchestrated by Kylie.

Thinking about the abuse she suffered and the torment from stomach cancer, Mikayla wished she could immediately strangle Kylie.

Why did she have to be so cruel?

Jerome, who clearly loved Kylie so much, had even sent Mikayla to the mental hospital for the former’s good.

Why wouldn’t Kylie let her go? Why did she have to harm her?

Jerome looked at Mikayla on the floor.

Although she had suggested keeping the audio call on, he still worried that something might go wrong, so he followed her up.

Unexpectedly, he witnessed Mikayla attacking someone as soon as the elevator doors opened.

She lay slumped amidst a chaotic mess of fruits, her eyes vacant, her body seemingly devoid of strength.

Though her face showed a smile, tears flowed incessantly, as if she had suffered some painful and tragic ordeal, radiating endless hatred and resentment.

Strangely, Jerome’s heart didn’t fill with anger at her madness. Instead, a dull ache

serthed within him:

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to help Mikayla when he heard

ed the woman who

the first ald kill.

in sitting down and then walked over

her arm. “Get

limp, and as he pulled at her arm, it was as if he were dragging a lifeless doll.

a

you come up here to apologize? What’s with this madness again?” he asked, furrowing his

began to focus, and her

a sense

you planning to be with Kylie after the

her tone

already furrowed brows tightened further as he countered,

life over

first aid

trying to

that moment, carrying the first aid

up, but she coldly

adjusted her clothes, and walked away

after Mikayla to find out what

out a stifled groan of pain.

Mikayla was the one responsible

complete stop. “Shall

her pale face, Kylie shook her

inch deeper, and it would have needed stitches!”

woman helped Kylie stop the bleeding while asking, “Who was that person just now? Why did she come in and attack you

faint smile. “She might have

Kylie, you’re just too kind. You’ve been bullied like this, and you’re still

said to the round–faced woman, “Aunt Agatha, please go back for now. If there’s anything,

want to leave, but she could tell

If you need someone to

Jerome asked Kylie, “What just